MyWiki:WikiProject Open/OER/Resources

Add high quality sources for citations about OER, especially those that define/discuss basic concepts here (and remove low quality/outdated/hyper-specific ones). This page should be useful specifically to someone editing OER-related Wikipedia articles rather than serving as an OER-related link dump. Citation and references are critical to the quality of Wikipedia articles. Open Access items are particularly useful.

Note this article is not a bibliography list in the main article namespace, but please create one if/when there are adequate publications about OER to merit one. See Wikipedia:List_of_bibliographies for examples and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bibliographies for guidance.

General

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
• Search the Directory of Open Access Journals for OA journals and articles about "open education".
• OER Knowledge Cloud, a searchable catalog of publications about OER

• P2PFoundation Wiki Category:Education, in which many articles call out key concepts by excerpting sources which would make good references.

• The "See also" list from OER article

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Education may have useful suggestions.
• The Wikipedia Library
• A similar list of resources from WikiProject Open Access.

Books

• Open Education Handbook (in progress) from Open Education Working Group
• Peeragogy Handbook: Wiki OER translation Peeragogy Handbook project
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, MIT Press (2010)

Journal articles

• Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, 2007.
• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective
• Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012): Pre-pub of "Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries"; this has a potentially useful reference list also

Blogs and blog posts

• Posts like this one document a variety of open educational practices. We should consider the best way to capture the knowledge expressed in such posts, while keeping in mind that blogs run by individuals are not particularly high quality sources (per WP:RS).
• Iterating Toward Openness from David Wiley
• Creative Commons blog

Reports from advocacy and other organizations

• Organizations advocating for open educational practices can provide valuable sources for citation, like this one: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiative
• White Paper: Open Educational Resources - Breaking the Lockbox on Education, Hewlett Foundation

Miscellaneous resources

• Evidence Hub for Open Education at OLnet
• OER timeline from WikiEducator
• WikiEducator OERu
• OER Policy Registry from Creative Commons

Country-specific

United Kingdom

• [1] - CC-BY-SA paper on OER history specifically focused on the UK (by Amber Thomas & David Kernohan). Also many useful references.
• [2] range of (UK)OER images, all cc-by-sa and generated by Martin Hawksey
• [3] JISC OER impact report - UK-focused qualitative view of the impact of OER on academic staff

Korea

• http://www.slideshare.net/StellaShin/the-current-aspects-of-oer-in-south-korea

Indonesia

• Google Translate of Indonesian OER article contains one fact about Indonesian OER: [4]

Information about Wikipedia editing

Citing sources:

• Overview about citing sources on Wikipedia (non-technical). Printable handout (PDF). Three page document explaining why citing sources is important, how to determine what is a good source, etc.
• Technical overview of how to cite sources. Printable handout (PDF).
• Technical overview of the RefTools feature. Printable handout (PDF) showing an easy way to cite sources.
• Video/screencast introduction to RefTools feature